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Anon: 2007
The music industry ca. 1981:

You can complete Factorio? How? Please tell me how! I've been trapped in this game for the last 2000 hours and I can't find the exit-button.

Fake and gay. Why is the text not in green?

Neat 😀

Low German is/was spoken in the northern lowlands near the sea, High German is/was spoken in the more mountainous regions in the south. This map shows quite well where the two languages are spoken, even though I think it's more a coincidence than causation that the language border matches the topological border.

Nowadays things have changed of cause, as Standard German is spoken in all of Germany, at least in official contexts. But in colloquial conversations and especially in the rural areas the difference persists.

That's especially funny as the sociolect used to buy döner is actually a High German variant (as immigrants coming to Germany will usually learn Standard German in their language courses and mix that with their mother tounge). All the Bubatz I've bought in my wild youth, I've gotten from Thomases and Michaels who were speaking perfectly good Standard German.

The only languages in the containers are the colored ones. Draw.io doesn't let you stop ungrouped nodes from overlapping containers.

Ah, I see, that explains a lot. You could make your version of the diagram even more "neat" by moving the Ingvaeonic part all the way to the right and switching "Central Germanic > Others" and Luxembourgish around, so all the green boxes would be right next to eachother.

Anglic is not German though. Nor is Frisian, Dutch or Low German. Don't confuse German with Germanic (which is an even bigger family of languages containing also Swedish etc.). Only the right half of your Diagram is actually German.

The split happened during the second Germanic consonant shift in the 6th-8th century, where the speakers south of the Benrath line shifted their k' to ch's and their t's to ts's. In English it's make and what, in Dutch and Low German maken and wat**, whereas in Standard German it's machen and was** and in Bavarian macha and wos. Only Languages that made that shift are considered German.

That doesn't necessarily mean that, for example, English and Low German are more similar than Low German and Luxembourgish. The whole area is part of the Continental West Germanic continuum and the closer you are geographically to someone the more likely you can understand each other. I the past it was much more usual to match and mix these languages to your needing. It was more important to be able to speak with the people from the neighbouring village than someone at the other end of the Holy Roman Empire, so someone speaking a German dialect in Cologne would be much more likely to understand someone speaking Düsseldorfer Platt (A Low German dialect) than someone from Graz even though they were both speaking "German".

Bavarian is definitely not low German, it's in fact "Upper German" which is a group of dialects of "High German". People tend to confuse "High German" with "Standard German" but Standard German is the Language that's taught in school while High German is a huge family of dialects.

Moin, Plattdüütsch is nich dat sülbige as Düütsch.

They are different languages even though they share some vocabulary due to their historical and geographical proximity. But until a few years ago it was usual for kids in rural Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony to grow up with Plattdüütsch as their mother tounge and only learn (High) German in school. I'm not sure if this is still the case as the number of monolingual Low German speakers has declined due to higher mobility in society and information.

Just because it's spoken in Germany it's not the same as German. You could get the same weird diagram by grouping French and English together as "Canadian".

What about a gattling gun using 16" guns as ammo, then?

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